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Atrem Cipin | ... | Avi Koft |
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Olga Dragunova | ... | Adina Koft |
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Veniamin Kac | ... | David Koft |
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Anna Levit | ... | Lea |
Darya Zhovner | ... | Ilana 'Ila' Koft (as Darya Zhovnar) | |
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Nazir Zhukov | ... | Zalim |
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen. Written by rurban
This movie is amazing and thought provoking, though difficult to watch at times. But no more difficult to watch than real life, real life of people trapped in wars they didn't create, women trapped in family roles decided for them, real life of small communities divided by identity wars where there is disregard and cruelty for the other just because they are part of another "tribe". There is a real footage of gruesome violence by Chechen militants that brought a lot of critique and controversy. The fact that people complain about this only shows their privilege: they have the power to complain about seeing that in the safety of their environment, on a tv screen. Real people who grew up witnessing and living through that don't have any power to complain about it.